Sumaya Moustafa, or Maya, is a mixed-media artist. Primarily working with collage, paint, clay (and the contents of her recycling bin). Sumaya enjoys all things kitsch and quaint, a bit sentimental, perhaps twee, and certainly a little odd. Drawing inspiration from her formative years, returning to not only the stories from her youth but from her childhood artistic approach; playing. Intentionally centering the process and learning while doing it. Her earliest, and some of her most formative influences are from the works of Lauren Child, Tim Burton, Gurinder Chadha and Cathy Cassidy.

Sumaya loves small things and has made miniatures from her home studio (and childhood bedroom). She also particularly enjoys sticking and glueing for paper collage which she, to, incorporates in almost all of her illustrations and animations, crafting different pockets of worlds - all prioritising an environmental, sustainable and analogue approach with little-to-no digital aid. She loves old bottle caps and cutting the letters out of everything - intentionally (well, usually) resulting in a wonky and imperfect outcome. Childlike her style often may be, she enjoys existential themes. Interested in the intersection between physical materials and motion Sumaya has only more recently delved into DIY animation, a medium that feels like the love child of all of her other ones. Sumaya is fascinated with how all mediums not only interact, but aid one other.

After going freelance in 2025 and participating in fundraising markets with Glasgow Artists for Palestine, Sumaya established @fluttbug , her shop (and vessel to show off a bit.) the thought behind it really came when selling her work in person, and seeing people interact with it; a feeling reminiscent to showing your mum a drawing you done when you were wee and she was really proud! The brand (and name being a play on her first online username) is all around the process being a playful one, and coming back to herself, and her first love: art! The unique pieces sold are all hand done by Sumaya and every piece has enabled her to get better at whatever the medium may be.

Sumaya Moustafa is currently Glasgow City Centre based and working in Film and TV as an Assistant Editor, she also works as an illustrator for Disobedient Magazine and often works with the Inverclyde Climate Action Network, facilitating sustainable art workshops. Sumaya finds writing about herself in the third person weird and grandiose.